HONEYEATER


Meaning of HONEYEATER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌē-tər ]

noun

Date: 1822

: any of a family (Meliphagidae) of oscine birds chiefly of the South Pacific that have a long extensible tongue adapted for extracting nectar and small insects from flowers

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